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Origin of the Great Bear (Ursa Major).

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The stars. Note: the question of implicit meanings assumed by the proponents of "astralmythology" is not discussed here; only explicit statements in original sources are considered. · Origin of particular stars. · view the constellation · filed as A771

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 13references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • GreekFox 21 (Kallisto), 251
  • JewishNeuman
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 34 No. 5
  • LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 81 Nos. 10, 11
  • EgyptianMüller 59
  • SiberianHolmberg Siberian 426
  • HinduKeith 102
  • ChineseGraham
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 12 No. 5. – N. Am. Indian (Eskimo, Iroquois, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Mandan, Sioux): Alexander N. Am. 9, 26, 96, *278 n. 14
  • AztecAlexander Lat. Am. 93.
  • general *Andree Ethnographische Parallelen (1878) 104
  • general *Handwb. d. Aberglaubens IX Nachträge 681f.
  • general *Basset RTP XXVIII 112 with references to earlier volumes. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 276
Within the index

Filed under Origin of particular stars.

1 finer motif beneath it
Origin of the Southern Cross. Analogous legends in the southern hemisphere with those of Ursa Major in the northern
Filed beside it
Origin of OrionOrigin of the PleiadesOrigin of the North Star. (Cf. A702.3.)Origin of HyadesOrigin of constellation Lyra. Greek (Orpheus's lyre)Origin of constellation ScorpioOrigin of the Milky WayOrigin of stars – miscellaneous

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